Art Contents Archive

Forever Here, Danielle Richard, Oils and Acrylics, 2011

Night music, soft pastel, 30x40cm, by me, 2021

Best friends forever: Archaeologists have exhumed two hugging skeletons at an ancient burial site in China: https://t.co/fatu0mnvJ6 https://t.co/ABnEWiSGLc

Pretty in print 📚 #DYK: The Met's Costume Institute Library is home to an incredible archive of Hanatsubaki—a magazine published by the Japanese cosmetics company Shiseido. Explore its evolution from the 1950s to today: https://t.co/0s8G18AlAv #MetPerspectives https://t.co/wsieT9spXv

In art, the term "genre" has two different meanings. A genre painting shows a scene of everyday life. These paintings capture unpolished, mundane, or humble scenes. 17th-century Dutch and Flemish artists were particularly invested in genre painting. https://t.co/YFDs3wPSfL

Decades before becoming New York’s Pied Piper for nonobjective art, Piet Mondrian had established a reputation in Europe for navigating and remaking realism in his own image. https://t.co/bbLdSh5FlB

From armoured beasts and shining shields to plumed helmets and printed flowers, there's not long left to see how school children have responded creatively to Uccello's 'The Battle of San Romano' in our #TakeOnePicture exhibition, closing on 12 September: https://t.co/bWxQRNy8At https://t.co/9Bawy8SAui

Elizabeth Neel grew up painting with her famous grandmother. Now, her new abstractions are getting attention in New York and London: https://t.co/b7NZ419qOU https://t.co/GqkQduMJto

Additionally, paintings were split into 5 unique categories, known as genres, by European art academies. Painting genres had a specific order of importance: history, portraiture, genre, landscape, and still life. https://t.co/zVWjJ1Yzb7

Researchers have discovered more people have a third median artery in their forearm than they did a century ago. https://t.co/hD7o97e4iY

Top five this week | Getting into @ArtBasel in Switzerland this month is going to be far from straightforward and is causing rising concern https://t.co/QOg0DNmJMC

Famous Paintings Transformed into Batman Pop Art https://t.co/Opap9HiL74 https://t.co/x1NMgE2B2A

Alpacas in Dreamy Colors https://t.co/SZJPOcA4eA https://t.co/Ri6PsAazDE https://t.co/EzZJPMUTQq

Peaceful Pictures of Naked Lovers by David Luraschi https://t.co/WfVgWqb71h https://t.co/RUQV7GQAlz https://t.co/7936AkzABU

Leslie Nichols, artist who creates her work on a manual typewriter, creating portraits of women using a variety of relevant appropriated and original texts relevant to the subject's life, conveying a sense of social heritage #WomensArt https://t.co/e3TgT3lL75